Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime: A Novel Review

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(More customer reviews)I am so fortunate that I acquired a signed first edition of this book, because I will treasure it for years to come. In his newest, Dunning crafts a story of a writer, caught up in a mystery due to a lost love. Stumbling through America in the war years, he manages to find a way to bring the truth to life, but along the way he finds himself in the broadcast radio game, and it is there that his talent truly comes alive. Dunning tops the story off with a coda that leaves the reader guessing as to whom Jack/Jordan finally spends the rest of his life with.
I haven't given up on the return of Cliff Janeway, the "Bookman" and hope that Dunning will return to his hero in the future, but "Two O'Clock Eastern Wartime" is an outstanding read.
Remembering my parents & grandparents talking about sitting around the radio for hours to listen, learn and be entertained, I always wondered about the attraction - Dunning has helped put that in perspective by giving the reader a sense of the magic that was radio during the war years in the 30's and 40's. Obviously an expert on the topic, he wraps his knowledge around a well written mystery with a hero you can really care about and an interesting cast of bit players.
I am a mystery/thriller buff, and don't often come across truly great writing - the thrill is the mystery itself, the element of surprise and sometimes disaster. Dunning can do it all. He can share a mystery with his readers but the quality of his own writer's craftsmanship appears throughout the novel, and makes it come alive..."He dreamed that there was no war. Got up at three and exploded into his work, as if the answer to everything lay in some unwritten script still hidden away in his mind..."; Dunning captures the thrill and the fulfillment of being a great writer and shares it with all of us who have never known that rush.
Please read "Two O'clock Eastern Wartime", you will have no regrets.

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Black Men Who Date White Women (Volume 3) Review

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(More customer reviews)Kalena Bass is the radio show host for WKBB and is trying to find new material for her show. She comes up with the topic `Black Men Who Date White Women,' and what a topic it is in Amina Harrison' book titled the same. Kalena is bombarded with calls on the subject but one caller leaves an unsettling feeling. This caller has a problem with women and uses Kalena's radio show to broadcast his hate.
Detective Teianna Norris is working on a murder case while awaiting a promotion. A position with the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be a big accomplishment for her. Tieanna has one problem, her boyfriend. She does not know how to tell him that she will be relocating to take the job. Will Teinna solve the case and take the position? Or will her case and her boyfriend's reaction be more than she can handle?
Black Men Who Date White Women is a mysterious story of murder and an unbalanced killer. I can truly say this book was not what I expected. However, the storyline did not flow and seemed to have more than one story going at one time. The excessive repetition and unfinished sentences took away from the story, making it hard to read. I recommend the book be professionally edited in order to make it a better read.
This book was provided by the author for review purposes.
Teresa Beasley
APOOO BookClub


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"Hello all of you listeners out there in radioland. This is DJ Luscious Queen,and today we are starting the topic of my new radio talk show; "Black men who date White women." I would like also for all of you listeners to call in with your comments. . ."When Kalena Bass, who is known as DJ Luscious Queen, begins her radio talk show; BLACK MEN WHO DATE WHITE WOMEN," she will be in for a load of laughs and comments as the calls come into WKBB in Bel Air. Except for one specific caller, who has an eerie message when he calls into WKBB to talk to DJ Luscious Queen, that all women to him are evil.

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